Ever since we bought the house last November we have wanted to host some sort of SCA gathering here (larger than dance practice), and, at long last, one has been scheduled. On Tuesday we missed choir practice (since lord_kjar came home from Double Wars with a bit of a sore throat, and so probably shouldn't be singing). Therefore we suddenly had a free ( Read more... )

I have enjoyed reading year end summaries/holiday letters from some of my friends and family this week, and it has inspired me to try to see if I can summarize my 2012.

( January = traveling )

Last Sunday morning we went in costume to the movie theater with others from Frostheim, where people were waiting in line to buy their tickets to the Hobbit premire, and entertained them a bit. Then, in the afternoon we had the choir "Julton" performance in town, at the big brick church. It was rather different from last year, when we were ( Read more... )

It snowed a fair bit last night and today, and there was wind the whole time. Early this afternoon I did a tiny bit of shoveling, just to clear a path from the front door to the edge of the hill, where we are dumping some of the snow with intent to make the hill taller and thus better for sledding (though we still need to make or acquire something ( Read more... )

I have moved a lot over the years, and as a result have managed to keep the pile of my stuff down to a reasonable size (when I moved to Sweden I initially brought only what fit in my luggage for the flight, and then everything else followed later, and it all fit into one rental van. As a result of not having way too much stuff it is normal for me ( Read more... )

This week hasn't seen as much progress on the moving in front as I might have liked--Monday night was Nyckleharpa class, so we didn't have time in the evening to do anything, but we were both inspired when we got home and stayed up till 02:00 unpacking, cleaning and organizing stuff in the shop ( Read more... )

lord_kjar stayed up till midnight last night building me a monitor stand. Sadly, I forgot to take photos during the day today, so you will have to content yourself with a description for now, and I will see if I remember the existence of cameras tomorrow ( Read more... )

Some of you may recall that I have, off an on over the years, had a goal to "read at least 1000 words from the Geologic Literature a day". This goal has helped me keep on top of the piles of reading a research scientist needs to do, and the discipline of doing it daily, even on weekends and holidays, also helps. However, it happens occasionally ( Read more... )

Since last I posted I have (with lots of help from lord_kjar) managed to:

*Get most of the programs I use regularly back onto my work computer after the IT department reinstalled it.

*Got the music/dance room emptied of boxes and musical instruments hung up on the wall.

*took photos of that part ( and put them on line )

Before lord_kjar's father and brother arrived at our apartment early Friday morning we managed to pack everything into boxes and dissemble such shelves and cabinets as were better taken apart before moving (the huge metal tool cabinet had to be taken apart--it won't go through that door when assembled--we had to take it apart to get it into that room in the ( Read more... )